Friday, February 12, 2010

Buddhism and the Unborn Child

A friend recently informed me that the Dalai Lama is anti-abortion. I had not known that he had made such a statement, so did some research...


It is better to be born in the human realm, even for one day.
According to Buddhism, a fetus is a human.
Morality is never about a person's right to choose,
but about understanding the consequences of ones actions
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The day after 9/11 the Dalai Lama wrote to President Bush, his most important political ally, warning him about the danger of responding to violence with violence. He also defended the Pope's view on abortion.

The very first moment of existence in human form consists of that first moment of mind, with its three associated immaterial components [feeling, thought and character] and the body of the embryo which is generated along with it.

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